Ensino de Química em Libras: inclusão e os desafios da linguagem

Abstract

This research refers to the teaching of chemistry to deaf students and challenges generated - and solved - by issues of language. For that, if accompanied for two weeks, the process of teaching and learning of a deaf student in High School Chemistry classes in a public school in the city of Pato Branco. It is a fact that education can and should be a key tool in promoting social inclusion, in addition, when it comes to students with special needs, as in the case of deaf students. However, this inclusion necessarily involves the acquisition and development of a unique language that, in the case of deaf people, occurs through the Libras. The lack of specific scientific terminology, in particular chemical terms, the sign language is a barrier to the development of scientific concepts and hence causes gaps in the teaching- learning process jeopardizing the intent of inclusive education. Brazil has advanced in regard to the legal guarantees of the deaf, especially with the implementation of Law No. 10.436 of 2002 and Decree 5.626 of 2005, which provide for the development of trained to meet the demands of this public professionals. However, as can be seen in the research, the simple host these students in regular classes do not configure the desired inclusion with such laws. This inclusion shall, undoubtedly, by constructing a representative deaf culture, experienced not only by and for the deaf, but by society as a whole.